The Grainger College of Engineering
Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Lab

Graduate Students

Name E-mail Advisor
Abdelghany Abouelnagga
he/him/his
 aaa31@illinois.edu Advisor: Can Bayram (PHD)
Sheikh Afrid
he/him/his
 safrid2@illinois.edu Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (MS)
Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (PHD)
Josh Akin
jdakin2@illinois.edu Advisor: Kejie Fang (PHD)
Luke Akin
he/him/his
 ldakin2@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Advisor: Paul Hergenrother (PHD)
Alex George Armstrong
alexga2@illinois.edu Advisor: Michelle Tomaszycki (PHD)
Advisor: Yurii Vlasov (PHD)
Chloe Armstrong
chloeca2@illinois.edu Advisor: Kent Choquette (MS)
Advisor: Kent Choquette (PHD)
Hossein Ataee
he/him/his
 hataee2@illinois.edu Advisor: Yang Zhao (PHD)
Takhmina Ayupova
ayupova2@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Amanda Bacon
bacon4@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Ále Baptista
he/him/his
 aeb7@illinois.edu Advisor: Wolfgang Pfaff (PHD)
Priyash Barya
pbarya2@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (MS)
Advisor: Elizabeth Goldschmidt (PHD)
Sharan Mourya Bathala
he/him/his
 bathala2@illinois.edu Advisor: Kejie Fang (PHD)
Emily Louise Becher
ebecher2@illinois.edu Advisor: John Dallesasse (PHD)
Zhengyi Bian
zbian4@illinois.edu Advisor: Stephan Link (PHD)
Advisor: Shuming Nie (PHD)
Adrian Robert Morin Birge
arbirge2@illinois.edu Advisor: Minjoo Lee (PHD)
Advisor: Moonsub Shim (PHD)
Jasper Bradford
he/him/his
 jasperb3@illinois.edu Advisor: Wolfgang Pfaff (PHD)
Jennifer Campbell
jjc11@illinois.edu Advisor: Peter Dragic (PHD)
Rajat Chakraborty
rajatc2@illinois.edu Advisor: Jean-Pierre Leburton (PHD)
Gayatri Pushpita Chandran
gpc4@illinois.edu Advisor: Yang Zhao (PHD)
Keith Joshua Chang
keithjc2@illinois.edu Advisor: Can Bayram (PHD)
Shomik Chatterjee
shomikc2@illinois.edu Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (PHD)
Derek R. Chaw
drchaw2@illinois.edu Advisor: Milton Feng (PHD)
Daren Chen
he/him/his
 darenc2@illinois.edu Advisor: Elizabeth Goldschmidt (PHD)
Sunny Chen
she/her/hers
 lcchen4@illinois.edu Advisor: Antonia Statt (PHD)
Wang-Chien Chen
he/him/his
 wcc4@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Xin Chen
xinc6@illinois.edu
Ze-Wei Chen
zeweic3@illinois.edu Advisor: Hyunseok Kim (PHD)
Stasiu Chyczewski
stasiuc2@illinois.edu Advisor: Wenjuan Zhu (PHD)
Sam Cross
jscross3@illinois.edu Advisor: Wolfgang Pfaff (PHD)
Advisor: Dale Van Harlingen (PHD)
Garrett Czajkowski
he/him/his
 gczajk2@illinois.edu Advisor: Kyekyoon Kim (PHD)
Kien Dang
he/him/his
 kientd2@illinois.edu
Swadhina Das
she/her/hers
 das33@illinois.edu Advisor: Wolfgang Pfaff (PHD)
Ankan Dastider
he/him/his
 agd6@illinois.edu Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (MS)
Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (PHD)
Aman Dhoraje
he/him/his
 dhoraje2@illinois.edu
Nhung Do
she/her/hers
 nhungdo2@illinois.edu Advisor: Thanh Nguyen (PHD)
Haiyue Dong
haiyued2@illinois.edu Advisor: Nadya Mason (PHD)
Advisor: Arend van der Zande (PHD)
Yicong Dong
he/him/his
 yicongd2@illinois.edu Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (MS)
Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (PHD)
Andrew Dou
zhidou2@illinois.edu Advisor: Mattia Gazzola (PHD)
William Cartwright Drennan
he/him/his
 wcd2@illinois.edu Advisor: M Taher Saif (PHD)
Nikita Duggar
she/her/hers
 nduggar2@illinois.edu Advisor: Lynford Goddard (PHD)
Hubert Elly
helly2@illinois.edu Advisor: Can Bayram (PHD)
Leah Espenhahn
leahe2@illinois.edu Advisor: John Dallesasse (PHD)
Xizheng Fang
xizheng2@illinois.edu Advisor: Minjoo Lee (PHD)
Muhammad Fayyaz
mfayyaz2@illinois.edu Advisor: Andrew Smith (PHD)
Jason Flanagan
jasonpf2@illinois.edu Advisor: John Dallesasse (MS)
Michael Alexander Gachich
mgachi2@illinois.edu Advisor: Peter Dragic (MS)
Advisor: Peter Dragic (PHD)
Jingxing Gao
jg47@illinois.edu Advisor: Lynford Goddard (PHD)
Mohammadreza Ghaderinia
he/him/his
 mg77@illinois.edu Advisor: Rashid Bashir (PHD)
Aayushman Ghosh
he/him/his
 aghosh14@illinois.edu Advisor: Lynford Goddard (PHD)
Jared Gibson
jaredg2@illinois.edu Advisor: Angela Kou (PHD)
Miles Guo
he/him/his
 ziangg2@illinois.edu Advisor: Yurii Vlasov (PHD)
Garima Devesh Gupta
gdgupta2@illinois.edu Advisor: Yurii Vlasov (MS)
Advisor: Yurii Vlasov (PHD)
Junkyu Ha
he/him/his
 junkyu2@illinois.edu Advisor: Cunjiang Yu (PHD)
Xiaoxue Han
xiaoxue6@illinois.edu Advisor: Joseph Irudayaraj (PHD)
A. K. M. Naziul Haque
he/him/his
 akhaque2@illinois.edu Advisor: Kejie Fang (PHD)
Laura Heller
lheller4@illinois.edu Advisor: Elizabeth Goldschmidt (PHD)
Da Hye Hong
she/her/hers
 dhhong3@illinois.edu Advisor: Simeon Bogdanov (PHD)
Advisor: Daniel Shoemaker (PHD)
Cornell Horne, Jr
chorne7@illinois.edu Advisor: Minjoo Lee (MS)
Ya-Hsin Hsiao
yahsinh2@illinois.edu Advisor: Nathan Gabrielson (MS)
Jierui Hu
he/him/his
 jieruih3@illinois.edu Advisor: Kejie Fang (MS)
Jack Huang
jackh4@illinois.edu Advisor: Lynford Goddard (PHD)
Jason Huang
sh3@illinois.edu Advisor: Christopher Anderson (PHD)
Siyuan Huang
siyuanh2@illinois.edu Advisor: Arend van der Zande (PHD)
Rebecca Huang
she/her/hers
 sh109@illinois.edu Advisor: Yun-Sheng Chen (MS)
Zihao Huang
zihaoh5@illinois.edu Advisor: Yun-Sheng Chen (PHD)
Judy Hutson
jhutson2@illinois.edu Advisor: Joseph Lyding (MS)
Advisor: Joseph Lyding (PHD)
Yvonne Chiamaka Ilozuluike
she/her/hers
 cilozu2@illinois.edu
Gabriel Vicente Inojosa
gvi2@illinois.edu
Abdullah Irfan
irfan3@illinois.edu Advisor: Wolfgang Pfaff (PHD)
Nathaniel Atticus Irwin
he/him/his
 nairwin2@illinois.edu Advisor: Christopher Anderson (PHD)
Jai Israni
he/him/his
 jai6@illinois.edu Advisor: Yang Zhao (PHD)
Hrishikesh Iyer
htiyer2@illinois.edu Advisor: Yurii Vlasov (MS)
Advisor: Yurii Vlasov (PHD)
Shinto James
he/him/his
 shintoj2@illinois.edu Advisor: Andrew Smith (PHD)
Jun Young Jeon
he/him/his
 jyjeon3@illinois.edu Advisor: Hyunseok Kim (PHD)
Sanghyun Jeon
sjeon19@illinois.edu Advisor: Ying Diao (PHD)
Henry David Jetmore
jetmore2@illinois.edu Advisor: Catherine Murphy (PHD)
Tim Jiang
chij2@illinois.edu
Aryaman Joshi
he/him/his
 aj49@illinois.edu Advisor: Hyunjoon Kong (PHD)
Carlos Juarez Yescas
carlosj3@illinois.edu Advisor: Paul Braun (PHD)
Jason Jung
jasondj2@illinois.edu Advisor: Gaurav Bahl (MS)
Paul Karras
pkarra2@illinois.edu
Ahmadreza Kashefi
he/him/his
 kashefi2@illinois.edu Advisor: M Taher Saif (PHD)
Kimia Kazemi
kkazemi2@illinois.edu Advisor: Mattia Gazzola (PHD)
-. Kevin Daniel
kdaniel5@illinois.edu Advisor: Axel Hoffmann (PHD)
Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (PHD)
Bora Kim
borak2@illinois.edu Advisor: Minjoo Lee (PHD)
Darwon Kim
darwonk2@illinois.edu
Gwan In Kim
he/him/his
 gikim2@illinois.edu Advisor: Gaurav Bahl (PHD)
Hyunchul Kim
hk28@illinois.edu Advisor: Arend van der Zande (PHD)
Philip Kim
he/him/his
 jk101@illinois.edu Advisor: Wolfgang Pfaff (PHD)
Seho Kim
he/him/his
 seho2@illinois.edu Advisor: Gaurav Bahl (PHD)
Yongsung Kim
he/him/his
 yk3@illinois.edu Advisor: Moonsub Shim (MS)
Advisor: Hyunseok Kim (PHD)
Jingyang Kong
she/her/hers
 jk105@illinois.edu Advisor: J. Gary Eden (PHD)
Katie Koprowski
kbk3@illinois.edu Advisor: Rashid Bashir (PHD)
Chia-Wei Kuo
cwkuo2@illinois.edu Advisor: Andrew Smith (PHD)
Sonji Lamichhane
sonjil2@illinois.edu Advisor: Mary Kraft (PHD)
Devon Owen Lee
he/him/his
 devonol2@illinois.edu Advisor: Minjoo Lee (PHD)
Ki Yun Lee
kiyunyl2@illinois.edu Advisor: M Taher Saif (PHD)
Alex Lee
he/him/his
 salee6@illinois.edu Advisor: Yun-Sheng Chen (PHD)
Ye Lin
yelin4@illinois.edu Advisor: Wenjuan Zhu (MS)
Alex Littlefield
he/him/his
 ajl8@illinois.edu Advisor: Lynford Goddard (MS)
Advisor: Lynford Goddard (PHD)
Haoran Liu
he/him/his
 haoran7@illinois.edu Advisor: Qing Cao (PHD)
Leyang Liu
leyangl2@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (MS)
Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Shengyan Liu
sl90@illinois.edu Advisor: Kejie Fang (PHD)
Suhao Liu
he/him/his
 suhaol2@illinois.edu Advisor: Fan Lam (PHD)
Weinan Liu
weinanl3@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Zetai Liu
zetail2@illinois.edu Advisor: Milton Feng (PHD)
Akshit Mahajan
he/him/his
 am159@illinois.edu Advisor: Yurii Vlasov (MS)
Advisor: Rohit Bhargava (PHD)
Rifat Mahmud
rmahmud2@illinois.edu Advisor: Sanjiv Sinha (PHD)
Nguyen Tuan Anh Mai
he/him/his
 tamai2@illinois.edu Advisor: Thanh Nguyen (PHD)
Harshvardhan Mantry
he/him/his
 hmantry2@illinois.edu Advisor: Wolfgang Pfaff (PHD)
Anik Mazumder
he/him/his
 anik2@illinois.edu Advisor: J. Gary Eden (MS)
Advisor: John Dallesasse (PHD)
Mahshad Mirshafeeyan
she/her/hers
 mahshad2@illinois.edu Advisor: Andrew Smith (PHD)
Yuvraj Misra
he/him/his
 ymisra2@illinois.edu Advisor: Christopher Anderson (MS)
Advisor: Christopher Anderson (PHD)
Niousha Mousavi
she/her/hers
 mousavi3@illinois.edu Advisor: Yang Zhao (PHD)
Siva Nalla
snalla2@illinois.edu Advisor: Andrew Smith (PHD)
Hyunjun Nam
hn7@illinois.edu Advisor: Qing Cao (PHD)
Soumak Nandi
he/him/his
 soumakn2@illinois.edu
My Thi Tra Nguyen
mytn2@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Ke Nie
kenie2@illinois.edu Advisor: Angela Kou (PHD)
Anastasiya Osher
aosher2@illinois.edu Advisor: Christopher Anderson (PHD)
Randy Allen Owen
randyo2@illinois.edu Advisor: Angela Kou (PHD)
Daniel Wiley Pflug
he/him/his
 dwpflug@illinois.edu Advisor: Kent Choquette (MS)
Ujaan Purakayastha
up2@illinois.edu Advisor: Paul Kwiat (PHD)
Cheeranjeev Purmessur
cp45@illinois.edu Advisor: Angela Kou (PHD)
Siyuan Qian
siyuanq3@illinois.edu Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (PHD)
Yueying Qiu
yueying9@illinois.edu Advisor: Yun-Sheng Chen (PHD)
Erin Marie Raftery
raftery3@illinois.edu Advisor: Kent Choquette (PHD)
Al-Sadiq Rahemtulla
alsadiq3@illinois.edu Advisor: Deborah Leckband (PHD)
Saeedur Rahman
saeedur2@illinois.edu Advisor: M Taher Saif (PHD)
Sonia Rani
soniar2@illinois.edu Advisor: Wolfgang Pfaff (PHD)
Fazlur Rashid
fazlurr2@illinois.edu Advisor: Ning Wang (PHD)
Tucson Richelson
he/him/his
 tucsonr@illinois.edu
Jaime Alexander Robertson
jaimear2@illinois.edu Advisor: David Ruzic (MS)
Archishman Saha
he/him/his
 asaha10@illinois.edu Advisor: Minjoo Lee (PHD)
Furkan Sahbaz
fsahbaz2@illinois.edu Advisor: Simeon Bogdanov (PHD)
Swetapadma Sahoo
sahoo5@illinois.edu Advisor: Simeon Bogdanov (PHD)
Maria Grace Scannell
she/her/hers
 mariags4@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Jisung Seo
he/him/his
 jisungs2@illinois.edu Advisor: Hyunseok Kim (PHD)
Advisor: Arend van der Zande (PHD)
Yoonjoo Seo
yoonjoo3@illinois.edu Advisor: Na Wei (PHD)
Connor Shannon
he/him/his
 connor28@illinois.edu Advisor: Xin Ning (PHD)
Yulei Shen
she/her/hers
 yuleis2@illinois.edu Advisor: Yang Zhao (PHD)
Skye Shepherd
skyes2@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Kaushik Singirikonda
ks105@illinois.edu Advisor: Wolfgang Pfaff (PHD)
Kewei Song
keweis2@illinois.edu Advisor: Milton Feng (PHD)
Zhantao Song
he/him/his
 zhantao2@illinois.edu Advisor: Mattia Gazzola (PHD)
Robert A. Stavins
stavins@illinois.edu Advisor: William King (PHD)
Advisor: Nenad Miljkovic (PHD)
Anqi Tan
anqitan2@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Joseph Tibbs
he/him/his
 jtibbs2@illinois.edu Advisor: Brian Cunningham (PHD)
Sanket Tripathy
sankett3@illinois.edu Advisor: Simeon Bogdanov (PHD)
Ashwin Tunga
tunga2@illinois.edu Advisor: Shaloo Rakheja (PHD)
Gaurav Upadhyay
gauravu2@illinois.edu Advisor: Mattia Gazzola (PHD)
Alexander Michael Upah
he/him/his
 aupah2@illinois.edu
Timothy Usey
he/him/his
 tusey2@illinois.edu
An Bao Van
he/him/his
 anbv2@illinois.edu Advisor: Rashid Bashir (PHD)
Santiago Vargas-Daniels
he/him/his
 sv44@illinois.edu Advisor: Christopher Anderson (PHD)
Hsien-Nung Wang
hnwang3@illinois.edu Advisor: Qing Cao (PHD)
Qixian Wang
he/him/his
 qixianw2@illinois.edu Advisor: Mattia Gazzola (PHD)
Robert Wang
he/him/his
 rlwang2@illinois.edu
Siyuan Wang
siyuan2@illinois.edu Advisor: Peter Dragic (MS)
Advisor: Peter Dragic (PHD)
Yiteng Wang
yitengw2@illinois.edu Advisor: Minjoo Lee (PHD)
Advisor: Moonsub Shim (PHD)
Yizun Wang
yizunw2@illinois.edu Advisor: Fan Lam (PHD)
Zirui Wang
ziruiw2@illinois.edu Advisor: Nicola Perry (PHD)
Advisor: Joaquin Rodriguez Lopez (PHD)
Matthew Wester
mwester3@illinois.edu Advisor: Rashid Bashir (PHD)
Brendan F. Wolan
wolan2@illinois.edu Advisor: Joseph Lyding (PHD)
Katy Wolhaupter
kew8@illinois.edu
Isaac Mark Wolstenholme
isaacmw2@illinois.edu Advisor: Wenjuan Zhu (PHD)
Ryan Wong
ryanw13@illinois.edu
Sunny Wong
sunnyw2@illinois.edu Advisor: Qing Cao (PHD)
Violet Workman
she/her/hers
 violet2@illinois.edu Advisor: Gaurav Bahl (PHD)
Haonan Wu
hwu60@illinois.edu Advisor: Milton Feng (PHD)
Sophie Wu
she/her/hers
 yuwu9@illinois.edu Advisor: Qing Cao (PHD)
Jacky Xiang
jiayix7@illinois.edu Advisor: Yurii Vlasov (PHD)
Fengyuan Xu
he/him/his
 fx2@illinois.edu Advisor: Andrew Smith (PHD)
Kleo Xu
wx5@illinois.edu Advisor: Joseph Lyding (PHD)
Na Yang
she/her/hers
 nay3@illinois.edu Advisor: Cunjiang Yu (PHD)
Xiaodong Ye
he/him/his
 xye11@illinois.edu Advisor: Yang Zhao (PHD)
Batu Yesilyurt
batuy2@illinois.edu
Junxi Yi
junxiyi2@illinois.edu Advisor: Yun-Sheng Chen (PHD)
Henry Yi
he/him/his
 weigang2@illinois.edu
Dong Young Yoon
he/him/his
 dy11@illinois.edu Advisor: Arend van der Zande (PHD)
Sarah Su-O Youn
ssyoun2@illinois.edu
Yung Man Yu
ymyu2@illinois.edu Advisor: Qing Cao (PHD)
Hao Yuan
he/him/his
 haoy10@illinois.edu Advisor: Kejie Fang (PHD)
Hongbo Yuan
hongboy2@illinois.edu Advisor: Mattia Gazzola (PHD)
Suyang Zhang
suyangz4@illinois.edu Advisor: Yurii Vlasov (PHD)
Yue Zhang
yuez11@illinois.edu Advisor: Arend van der Zande (PHD)
Zhixin Zhang
zhixin2@illinois.edu Advisor: Axel Hoffmann (PHD)
Kevin Zhao
helinlz2@illinois.edu Advisor: Arend van der Zande (PHD)
Shensheng Zhao
sz35@illinois.edu Advisor: Yun-Sheng Chen (PHD)
Advisor: Yang Zhao (PHD)
Yunlei Zhao
yunleiz2@illinois.edu Advisor: Gabriel Popescu (PHD)
Aijia Zhou
zaijia2@illinois.edu Advisor: Thanh Nguyen (PHD)
Yushi Zhou
he/him/his
 yushiz2@illinois.edu Advisor: Yang Zhao (PHD)